DARPA-funded robotic zoo, right next to the robotic cheetah and the mule-like BigDog.
Thanks to an innovative, self-stabilizing leg design, the movements of this flightless robotic bird are going to be not only very efficient, but also extremely fast.
The legs are already capable of hitting 27 mph (43.4 km/h), matching the fastest of humans
Senate voted on a bill that allows the US military to imprison civilians, US citizens included, with no formal charges and hold them with no trial.
the legislation aims to declare national territory part of the "battlefield" in the fake War on Terror.
>>911 is false flag inside operation>>we are almost there>>now keep watching football on your tvTermed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and drafted behind closed doors by Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) the NDAA would:
1) Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up inside and outside the United States;
(2) Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within the United States itself; and
(3) Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.
the bill will “basically say in law for the first time that the US homeland is part of the battlefield” and people can be imprisoned without charge or trial “American citizen or not.
>>>>how crazy is this?
as crazy as false flag terror
Hybrid Insect Micro Electromechanical Systems program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Darpa
a revolution, a democracy, a social justice is needed. no to fraud capitalist mafia.
U.S. intelligence agencies are also known to track suspect bloggers and tweeters on the Internet to help identify Taliban fighters or terrorist operatives.
Twitter executives have told lawmakers that the micro-posts do not violate the website's terms of service because the Taliban is not listed by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization.
Twitter executives have told lawmakers that the micro-posts do not violate the website's terms of service because the Taliban is not listed by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization.
Pressure also is coming from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, the Afghan capital.
This year, the ISAF began battling the pro-Taliban messages with tweets that countered insurgent claims. As a result, the two sides sometimes exchange a dozen tweets a day.
Some legal experts contend that the pro-Taliban messages are protected under U.S. law.
"Israel buried our friendship in the deep waters of the Mediterranean," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in response to a question on whether Turkish-Israeli relations would recover in the near future
Turkey sees no possibility of resuming full diplomatic relations with Israel unless Israel apologizes and pays damages for the deaths its commandos caused last year aboard a Turkish ship that was trying to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip,
Susan Lindauer vs. The Capitol Hill Cowards & Fraudsters
There’s nothing Congress loves so much as a lie. Former CIA Asset and 9/11 Whistle-blower, Susan Lindauer believes the Senate Intelligence Committee should investigate the abuse of Assets– like herself– engaged in terrorism investigations, including the embezzlement of $13 million from the 9/11 investigation.
Discover what happened when she approached the offices of self proclaimed women’s right leaders, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, both leading Democrats on the Intelligence Committee.
Her story exposes major leadership fraud on anti-terrorism and national security.
The truth scares Congress,
Susan Lindauer scares Congress because her story exposes major leadership fraud on anti-terrorism and national security.
Listen to Susan’s story with Bob Tuskin here
American forces were given 15 days to vacate the remote Shamsi drone airbase, which was secretly turned over to them after the 9/11 attacks
Pakistan blocked supply routes for U.S.-led Nato occupation troops in Afghanistan and announced it would end American use of a Pakistani airbase by American forces in retaliation for a NATO attack on a Pakistani border outpost that officials said killed at least 24 soldiers and injured another 13.
The decision to order the Americans out followed an emergency meeting of Pakistan's top civilian and military leadership late Saturday to decide how to respond to the deaths of the soldiers.
Shamsi was used for launching the war in Afghanistan in late 2001, then later served as the base for the U.S. drone program targeting militants.
Set in desert in sparsely populated Baluchistan province in Pakistan's west, the airbase became highly controversial within Pakistan for its association with drone strikes, which Pakistan officially condemns.
The deaths of the Pakistani soldiers will pour fuel on the already raging anti-American sentiment.
Developers at Washington University announced 11/25/11 that they are one step closer to creating bionic contact lenses.
These could be the ultimate in mobility, ensuring you could access your emails or any information wherever you are.
Bionism is coming. We will turn into cyborgs, original living organisms, mixed with non living technology.
Apart from that, pure technical robots will exist, just as pure new life forms biogical living creatures. They may to be called biobots.
New Living Life Forms may be
chimeras - where human genes will be mixed with animal genes, or
transgennic, where human genes will be mixed with new artificially created genes.
In any case, traditional original biological human beings are basically a complex programm running inside a brain, with all hte bio support structure of the body.
An event of immortality, attained via controlling the process of aging, via organs growing and replacement, is fast approaching.
The time will lose it meaning, when a moment will last an eternity.
Later on, the notion of immortality will lose its meaning also.
We are but programs, a projections, running inside a brain. You can start a program, create a program, modify a program, download a program.
You can simulate a program by some superprogram.
You can simulate a brain on some future atom quantum super computer also.
Nothing is real. We are but images, projections of programs running inside our brains.
All that we are developed from a primordial initial chaos.
What was before we will never know.
We never existed, we do not exist, and we will not exist.
Nothin is real.
But a projection of a true sincere human feeling of true friendship, of true love, of true peace, of total of goodness of the spirit of human beings certainly is pure, neat, beautiful and precious aspect of our Being.
water powered clock
Russia is slowly realizing that Nato is waging world war, ever since 1991, bombing apart countries which it can, and preparing further assaults, on Russia included.
Aggression and wrs. coded into human genes, are barbaric, illegal and useless.
Many empires throughout the history fell for violent conquests. Its nothing but war crimes.
911 controlled demolition therefore inside false flag operation. Irrefutable scientific evidence.
The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Unfortunately, acidity (a prominent characteristic of tomatoes) causes BPA to leach into your food.
corn fed beef - lot less nutrition
microwave popcorn - lining cancer, disease causing toxics leaking into popcorn
non organic potatoes - herbicides, pesticides, fungicides
farmed salmon - less nutrients, higher in contaminants
milk with artificial growth hormones - cancer
conventional apples - collect pesticides
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poisons in our foods. what does corporate government does about it ?? nothing.
they are bought by big corporations.
A quarter of American women, 25%, take antidepressant medications, victims if violent combative rough wild capitalist society. Compared to 15% of men.
Increase of 29 % since 2001.
Other aspect to consider is that big pharma companies are trying like crazy to sell any drug to people, and charge it to insurance or state.
Ilness is good profits, so is war good profits.
So lets depress society, export jobs and industries abroad, and make some good money. -> out of control corporations.
it is a known fact that in regions with high unemployment, there is greater occurrence of ilnesses, of cancer.
The use of atypical antipsychotics -- medications once mainly prescribed for schizophrenia -- have gone up dramatically as well. The number of adults ages 20 to 64 taking these meds is 3.5 times higher than it was 2001.
Often the 1% of the time – slaveholders, robber barons and merchants of war – re-asserted control with new methods of domination
1877, railroad men sparked the first general strike in U.S. history.
corporations and the state are just two arms of the same beast - tyranny, robbery to benefit a few owners/rulers, on the expense of everyody else
Hundreds clashed with police during a “day of action” two months to the day since the protest movement, which has spawned splinter groups across the world, was born in Manhattan.
In New York, demonstrators marched on the New York Stock Exchange from Zuccotti Park, where their camp was demolished earlier this week.
Chanting “our park — our city!”,
177 arrests had been made and seven officers were injured. A further 60 arrests were made as more than a thousand people marched across Brooklyn Bridge.
Protesters said that they were aiming to “resist austerity”, “reclaim our economy” and “recreate our democracy”.
“Enough of this economy that exploits and divides us,” they said.
“It’s time we put an end to Wall Street’s reign of terror and begin building an economy that works for all.”
Estimated 24 were arrested by police in Portland, Oregon, while blocking Steel Bridge, a crucial transport route.
Hundreds more gathered in Los Angeles during the morning rush hour to disrupt traffic around the downtown financial district, where police were poised to make arrests in order to clear the streets.
Protesters stressed that their anger was directed towards specific groups such as executives from bailed out banks.
Van Jones, a former adviser to President Barack Obama who now runs Rebuild the Dream, a Left-wing campaign group, said: “We don’t mind winners — we just don’t like cheaters.”
In New York, some pledged to “retake” Zuccotti Park, which was cleared in a 1am raid on Tuesday. New rules prevent those choosing to return from bringing tents or even lying down.
Laura Avelar,a student from New Jersey who had slept in the camp since its creation on September 17, 2011, said OWS movement’s lack of concrete demands remained a strength, not a weakness.
“We are building a consensus and we want to keep it fluid,” she told The Daily Telegraph.
“It’s premature to say what we want. We want everyone’s voices heard.”
Scientists have created microscopic robots out of DNA molecules that can walk, turn and even create tiny products of their own on a nano-scale assembly line.
The ground-breaking devices outlined in the journal Nature, could one day lead to armies of surgeon robots that could clean human arteries or build computer components.
It's clear that the interests of the majority of people in this country do not align with the military-industrial complex who put corporate profiteering based on destruction ahead of the needs of people,
If the last decade was the era of occupations that everyone called liberations, then the 99 percent movement is seeking to make this the era of liberations everyone calls occupations.
infidelity now affects one out of every 2.7 couples.
a young veteran from the war in Iraq who allegedly brutally killed his girlfriend in 2008 and died two years later
Needham claimed to have witnessed horrendous atrocities committed by his unit against Iraqis during their deployment in the country.
In a letter to senior army officials, Needham wrote that he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression.
He described what he called war crimes, asked for an investigation and requested to be assigned to a different unit.
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war is wrong. war is a crime.
Vyzva www.ano2011.cz:
Vážení spoluobčané,
jmenuji se Andrej Babiš. V Česku zaměstnávám ve svých firmách tisíce lidí, platím stovky milionů korun na daních a jsem naštvaný stejně jako vy. Naštvaný proto, že politici naši zemi od revoluce nejenže neumějí řídit, ale přihlížejí jejímu rozkrádání.
Jsem naštvaný, že žijeme v nefunkčním státě. Veřejně jsem řekl to, co si většina z vás myslí, ale bojí se to říct nahlas. Někteří mě varují, že dělám chybu, když ostrou kritiku říkám veřejně.
Prý se stejně nic nezmění, Češi se nesjednotí a nakonec na to doplatím já sám, moje rodina a moje firmy.
Kam jsme došli?
Žijeme v nefunkčním státě
O Klausovi Babiš tvrdil, že zneužil pádu komunismu. Servítky si nebral ani u Víta Bárty z Věcí veřejných, expremiéra Mirka Topolánka (ODS) a jeho poradců včetně Marka Dalíka, bývalého premiéra Stanislava Grosse (ČSSD) a dalších.
Babišův Agrofert Holding se řadí k největším firmám v ČR, obchoduje s komoditami chemického a zemědělsko-potravinářského sektoru.
Před listopadem 1989 byl členem KSČ, je i v takzvaných Cibulkových seznamech jako spolupracovník Státní bezpečnosti. Tvrdí, že s StB nikdy nespolupracoval.
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ostra kritika pomeru, rozkradani a zlodejen v Cechach je rozhodne opravnena.
Proc vsak tolik napada www.VeciVerejne.cz ?
Babiš dnes řekl, že jeho iniciativa má dosud 7500 sympatizantů, dalších 1300 jich je na facebooku. Kampaň ho dosud stála 1,9 milionu korun, další peníze vyčlení. "Mám zaměstnaného jednoho novináře, ten bere na smlouvu 60.000, pokud vás to zajímá, nastoupila naše sekretářka Veronika, ta má 25.000 korun," řekl. Nevylučuje, že jeho hnutí se bude angažovat politicky.
Western nations are illicitly providing arms to Syria's opposition to force the violent terror overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, Russia's top diplomat foreign min Lavrov said.
weapons are being smuggled into Syria from Turkey and Iraq,'
'Armed extremists are using peaceful demonstrations to provoke Syrian government violence,'
Calls by NATO countries on the al-Assad regime to stop using force to maintain order are self-serving, Lavrov said, considering that some of those very nations are providing weapons to a Syrian opposition responsible for violent protests.
'Russia is deeply disappointed by this,' Lavrov said, singling out France and the United States as countries he felt were being especially hypocritical on Syria.
Commenting on a recent Arab League decision to suspend Syria's membership of the organization, Lavrov said the Kremlin felt the measure was unjustified
'We consider it (the suspension) improper.
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nato west war crimes continue .. will it lead to world war III? it depends if Russia has enough of nuclear weapons.
If Russia will look vulnerable, west will launch a war against it.
war means profits.
For the past two years, health and environmental groups have been urging Johnson & Johnson to remove two potentially cancer-causing chemicals from its baby shampoo.
One of these ingredients is quaternium-15, which releases formaldehyde; a skin, eye, and respiratory irritant, and a known carcinogen (formaldehyde exposure has been associated with leukemia specifically).
The other, 1,4-dioxane, is a "likely carcinogen," and is present in Johnson & Johnson's:
•Baby Shampoo
•Oatmeal Baby Wash
•Moisture Care Baby Wash, and
•Aveeno Baby Soothing Relief Creamy Wash
According to the CDC, 1,4 dioxane is "probably carcinogenic to humans," and is toxic to your brain, central nervous system, kidneys and liver.
!!!!
Other hazardous ingredients found in many shampoos and personal care products include parabens, DEA, and propylene glycol.
Baby products that contain 2 bromo, 2 nitropropane, 3-DIOL, sodium borate, and oxybenzone should also be avoided.
To avoid toxic hazards, look for the USDA organic seal, and/or use the Environmental Working Groups Skin Deep site to evaluate products before settling on a purchase
country needs single payer public private universal healthcare system, to break with post-slavery practices that healthcare is somehow bound to being employed, and to stop current megafraud patchwork.
medieval depression levels of wealth and income concentrations bring concentration of power.
therefore, corruption, depression, wars.
911 is controlled demolition false flag attack on America by ruling globalised elite.
www.krunchd.com/911
minimum wage needs to increase to $15 per hour for companies larger than 15 people.
crazy military budget of $1 trillion a year needs to be cut by 50% immediately.
industries, jobs, prosperity need to stay in America, ruling elite needs to stop exporting them
911 attack is controlled demolition therefore an inside false flag operation.
smaller cities like Pensacola, Florida and Youngstown, Ohio were also staging "Occupy" protests.
Maddow said it almost "hits at another level" to see the movement spread so far and wide.
The encampment protest in the financial district of New York City is now in its second month.
The demonstrators are protesting bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment.
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Michael Moore supports also new investigation into 911 controlled demolition inside false flag operation.
Skoda Fabia Greenline II 1.2 TDI CR 75ps , VW
Greenest cars-German diesels, Czech Skoda VW, 69 mpg US, 83 mpg UK, 3.4 l/100km , EU combined average
Price: £13,805 = $22 000 = 400 000 Korun
better - best- yet:
Kia Rio 1.1 CRDi EcoDynamics
Price: £11,895 = $18 800 = 342 000 Korun
Fuel economy (EU Combined): 88.3mpg UK = 3.2 l/100 km = ** 73 mpg US **
CO2 emissions: 85g/km
same mileage:
Volkswagen Polo Bluemotion 1.2 TDI
Price: £14,860 = $23 600 = 429 000 Korun
Fuel economy (EU Combined): 80.7mpg UK = 66 mpg US = 3.5 l/100 km
CO2 emissions: 91g/km
Seat Ibiza S Copa 1.2 TDI CR Ecomotive , Spain VW
Price: £13,700 = $21 000 = 397 000 Korun
Fuel economy (EU Combined): 80.7mpg UK = 66 mpg US = 3.5 l/100 km
CO2 emissions: 92g/km
Vauxhall Corsa S 1.3CDTi 16v (95ps) ecoFlex Start/Stop
Price: £14,340 = $22 800 = 414 000 Korun
Fuel economy (EU Combined): 80.7mpg UK = 66 mpg US = 3.5 l/100 km
CO2 emissions: 94g/km
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will these be sold on closed monopoly US market?
same as foreign doctors cant compete on US market, because they might be 10 times cheaper, with the same quality
corrupted market
The combination of motion and speed sensors and advanced computing mean that the Genium, made by German firm Otto Bock Healthcare, can detect small changes in movement and direction.
This makes it better than other models at changing the rigidity of the knee, providing better balance and stability.
Cycling, skiing, golf and table tennis are all possible.
Workers' rights. Consumer protections. A woman's right to choose. Progressive values are under attack by the radical right at the local, state and federal levels. Has your phone company funded politicians leading these assaults? You might be surprised to learn the answer.
switch to Credo phone company.
Mask-bot will influence the way in which we humans communicate with robots in the future,"
prototype of a new robot face that a team at the Institute for Cognitive Systems (ICS) at TU Munchen has developed in collaboration with a group in Japan
A huge amount of research worldwide is still being channeled into the development of programs that enable robots to listen and understand humans in real time and make appropriate responses
The Munich researchers are already working on the next generation. Mask-bot 2 will see the mask, projector and computer control system all contained inside a mobile robot.
Whereas the first prototype cost just under EUR 3,000, costs for the successor model should come in at around EUR 400.
Besides video conferencing, "These systems could soon be used as companions for older people who spend a lot of time on their own,"
Choose the bottled water labeled as fluoride low content of 0.2 ppm or less.
chlorine
Chlorine is added to drinking water to keep it bacteria- free. But it also reacts with organic material creating chloroform, trihalomethanes (THMs) and other chlorination disinfection byproducts (CBPs) and these are an strongly linked with cancer.
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this was discovered to be a problem with chlorinated public pools also - chlorine is OK, but it reacts with biological residues in the water, and resulting sustances are carcinogenic.
In 1992, the American Medical Association published statistics showing nearly 28 percent of all cancers of the intestines and 18 percent of all cancers of the bladder can be traced to chlorinated water. More than a dozen subsequent studies confirm this finding.
The EPA agency has ordered cities and towns across the United States to start reducing levels of this compound in drinking water- but chlorination will continue, even though water also can be disinfected with ultraviolet light or ozone without creating CBPs.
Ozone is used in some European cities-Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Munich and others-but chlorination continues to be the norm on this continent.
fluoride
Fluoride is added to 60 percent of US and 40 percent of Canadian tap water to reduce tooth decay. However, scientists say that actually swallowing this toxin offers virtually no dental advantage.
"You may as well swish with fluoridated tap water and spit it out. That's how it works," topically - on contact
one view:
"Fluoride causes more cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical." Fluoride is further linked to osteoporosis, hip frachlre, memory and neurological impairment and kidney disorders.
Here's a sampling of bottled water brands that are fluoride-free:
Apani Purifie ** Aqua Panna ** Arrowhead ** Calistoga Spring ** Crystal Geyser ** Deer Park North ** Deer Park South ** Great Bear ** Hinkley & Schmidt ** Ice Mountain Keeper Springs ** Loon Country Natural Spring ** NARA International Himalayan Spring Ozarka ** Penta ** Poland Spring Snow Valley Mountain ** Sparkletts
Russia's Vladmir Putin has already warned of retaliation if the American axis bombs Iran, and that's exactly what will happen: World War III.
The idea of America bombing Iran, is like Russia threatening to bomb Mexico or Canada, because it was "supicious of Mexicans or Canadians are pursuing the building of an nuclear bomb."
America already bombed Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq into pas century, Libya into civil war.
Why not Iran?
Because war is money and profit, and peace is a slow profit.
Healthcare for people means less money for bombs.
Source: www.agoracosmopolitan
Reasons? bad food and "environment pollution"
prostate cancer, primarily as a result of poor diet and increasing environmental pollution.
>>remark
Reasons for cancers spreading is unchecked corporate quest for more and bigger profits, above everything, people, health, earth, environment.
PROFITS NOW. Even if it meant to deindustrialise and destroy America itself - ruling class is based elsewhere.
Most cases of prostate cancer do not occur until after men turn 50, but in recent years there has been a steady rise in the percentage of men in their 30s and 40s with both prostate problems and prostate cancer.
investigations over the years have discovered serious flaws with the PSA test used to diagnose prostate cancer.
Researchers are also questioning the conventional treatments of prostate cancer, which include surgical removal of the prostate gland and radiotherapy, as they may not be necessary for most men.
There are 181 fracking injection wells in the Oklahoma county where most of the weekend earthquakes happened,
Oklahoma typically had about 50 earthquakes a year until 2009. Then the number spiked, and 1,047 quakes shook the state in 2010.
Scientists say they have no explanation for the quakes.
They happened along an ancient fault, although it’s not clear yet whether shifting along the fault is what caused them,
Arkansas also has seen a big increase in earthquake activity, which residents have blamed on injection wells.
Natural gas companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, use fluid to break apart shale and rock to release natural gas.
Injection wells then dispose of the fluid by injecting it back into the ground.
There are 181 injection wells in the Oklahoma county where most of the weekend earthquakes happened,
Lately, there also was highly unusual earthquake in Colorado and East coast.
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Earthqukes can ge triggered artificially, with Haarp technology.
http://krunchd.com/haarp
The federal limit for acrylamide in drinking water is 0.5 parts per billion, or about 0.12 micrograms in an eight-ounce glass of water.
However, a six-ounce serving of French fries can contain 60 micrograms of acrylamide, or about FIVE HUNDRED times over the allowable limit.
Similarly, potato chips are notoriously high in this dangerous chemical. So high, in fact, that in 2005 the state of California actually sued potato chip makers for failing to warn California consumers about the health risks of acrylamide in their products.
Beware: Baked Chips May Be WORSE than Fried!
Acrylamide is Not the Only Danger
Acrylamide is not the only dangerous genotoxic compound formed when food is heated to high temperatures.
By the end of 2011, about half of Pepsi's Frito-Lay brand snacks will be reformulated with all-natural ingredients.
~~~~~ AVOID !
•French fries and potato chips
•All sodas (both regular and diet, as artificial sweeteners may be more problematic than fructose)
•Doughnuts
Olive
Also olive oil goes bad soon. keep in cool, dark place, buy small bottles.
Worst oils for cooking:
•Corn •Soy •Safflower •Sunflower •Canola
Also never use margarine or shortening.
bomb, attack, colonise the country, steal oil, steal money. capitalism in action.
'At the International Security Conference (ISC) in Munich, 2007, Vladimir Putin warned western leaders, that the unprecedented aggressive expansion of NATO has brought the world more close to a third world war than it has ever been before.
This stern warning came years before NATO´s aggression against Libya and it´s undeclared war in Syria and Pakistan.
Following the recent deployment of US troops to Uganda, and military threats directed against Pakistan, the armed forces of NATO, Russia and China have never been as close to open and all out conflict as today.
A recent and sobering report of the Russian Intelligence Service FSB, details the fact that the USA and NATO are currently planning and actively preparing for all out war on all continents.
Nationwide, employment among young adults 16-29 stood at 55.3 percent, down from 67.3 percent in 2000 and the lowest since the end of World War II.
Also a rebound in the foreign-born population to 40 million, or 12.9 percent, the highest share since 1920.
Most immigrants continue to be low-skilled workers from Latin America, with growing numbers from Asia also arriving on the bet that U.S. jobs await. An estimated 11.2 million immigrants are here illegally.
In all, the employment-to-population ratio for all age groups from 2007-2010 dropped faster than for any similar period since the government began tracking the data in 1948.
In the past year, 43 of the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas continued to post declines in employment, led by Charlotte, N.C., Jacksonville, Fla., Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Detroit, all cities experiencing a severe housing bust, budget deficits or meltdowns in industries such as banking or manufacturing.
About 1 in 4 families with children is headed by single mothers, a record high.
Among young families with a head of household younger than 30, the poverty rate jumped from 30 percent in 2007 to 37 percent.
In contrast, poverty remained at a low 5.7 percent for families with a head of household 65 or older
The number of households receiving food stamps swelled by 2 million to 13.6 million, meaning that nearly 1 in 8 receives the government aid.
The highest shares of recipients are in Oregon, Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky and Mississippi. Among households receiving food stamps, more than half have children.
Soda, which is loaded with sugar primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup, is a leading contributor to the rising rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases facing Americans.
Drinking soda is in many ways worse for you than smoking, and it is only because of massive marketing campaigns from the industry that these sugary beverages are deemed acceptable for our most vulnerable members of society – our kids.
In the 21st century there would indeed be an uproar if tobacco companies attempted to target our kids, but the soda companies do it everyday.
The statutory U.S. corporate income tax rate is 35 percent, one of the highest in the world; but over the 2008-2010 period, very few of the companies studied paid it, said the report.
The average effective tax rate for the companies over the period was 18.5 percent,
Corporations will say rightly that the loopholes that let them slash their taxes were perfectly legal, the report said.
"But that does not mean that low-tax corporations bear no responsibility
